Watch the Foley Lecture with Richard Epstein
Pepperdine's Geoffrey H. Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law hosted the second installment of the Foley Lectureship Series: Leaders in Law and Business on March 28 at the School of Law.
The lecture featured distinguished speaker Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago School of Law. Epstein's lecture was titled "The Mortgage (Or, Subprime) Meltdown: Why One Bad Decision Deserves Yet Another." Pepperdine Professors Grant Nelson, Shelley Saxer, and Mark Scarberry, plus Dan S. Schector from Loyola Law School presented questions for discussion.
Epstein has taught at the University of Chicago since 1972. Previously, he taught law at the University of Southern California. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991 and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, and the Peter and Kirsten Bedfors Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
At present, Epstein is the director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, and an expert on numerous areas of law including property, torts, land use, civil procedure, contract law, worker's comp, and Roman law. His latest book is Antitrust Decrees in Theory and Practice: Why Less is More (AEI 2007).
The Foley Lectureship Series is made possible by William P. Foley, II.